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The Lenovo X300 is a true road warrior device

I just recently purchased a super compact Fujitsu U810 UMPC my review is under development right now because my personal gadget budget had a cap of US$1000. However, for those of you in the enterprise looking for a serious road warrior device that is high portable and has everything, but...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Lenovo X300, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Engineering, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Processors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Semiconductors, Components, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-02-26

MacBook+Heir%3F+Lenovo+X300+is+everywhere+this+week

MacBook+Heir%3F+Lenovo+X300+is+everywhere+this+weekCool. Just one question:Can the Lenovo X300 run OS X Leopard? It would be even cooler if it could.Vaporware?What will it cost?What will the REAL battery life be?The Air is here and now, and the people who want it are buying it. They won't be in the market...

Tags: Operating systems, Lenovo X300, MBA

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

MacBook Heir? Lenovo X300 is everywhere this week

Thanks to specs that match up nicely to the MacBook Air--it also fits in an interoffice envelope--Lenovo's still unannounced X300 ultraportable got a lot of press this week culminating in a February 25 cover story in BusinessWeek. Prior to that, The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Apple MacBook, Expresscard, Image Processing, Laptop Computer, Lenovo X300, Modems, Notebooks, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-15

Flyweight bout: Lenovo X300 vs. MacBook Air

Flyweight bout: Lenovo X300 vs. MacBook AirWith the exception of ProcessorThe X300 wins almost hands down. One specification that you didn't list and can't really check without some expensive investigation would be durability. While the Lenovo probably is a fairly sturdy laptop, but still plastic. Compare that...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, aluminum case, Lenovo X300, optical drive, MBA, MacBook Air, Lenovo Group Ltd., Apple MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-02-13

Flyweight bout: Lenovo X300 vs. MacBook Air

Details of Lenovo's new ultraportable have been leaking out for nearly a month. The latest bit of info on the X300 comes from a product page on Best Buy's business site, which according to TrustedReviews and others listed a $2,744 configuration with a 13.3-inch display, 2GB memory,...

Tags: Lenovo Group Ltd., Apple MacBook, Lenovo X300, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-11

Additional Resources

Can a laptop ever be too thin?

Ralph Lauren is on the receiving end of a blogosphere backlash today over an apparent Photoshop job gone awry. It turns out there is such a thing as too thin. I mention this because yesterday both Dell and Sony introduced new laptops that give new meaning to ultra-thin. The trend...

Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, Dell Adamo, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-10-08

MSI X340 might be the best laptop you've never heard of

Glossy LCD? No thanksA Lenovo X300 from the Lenovo Outlet for about $1100 seems to be the best deal to me. For an extra $400 beyond the MSI you get a fast SSD, higher resolution non-glossy display though the viewing angle and contrast is rather disappointing, a second processing core,...

Tags: Notebooks, MSI web site, MSI, laptop computer, MSI X340

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Lenovo ThinkPad T400s business thin-and-light laptop

Lenovo' new ThinkPad T400s laptop is a thin-and-light notebook for business users that features solid state drive storage and falls between the featherweight ThinkPad X300 and its T400 predecessor. It sports a super-slim profile, just 0.83-in. thick at its thinnest point, and starts under 4 lbs. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Lenovo ThinkPad, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, product photos, Lenovo, ThinkPad, laptop, notebook, thin-and-light, T400s, business, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2009-06-24

Lenovo debuts ThinkPad T400s business thin-and-light laptop; 0.83 in. thick, under 4 lbs.

Lenovo today announced the new ThinkPad T400s laptop, a thin-and-light notebook for business users that features solid state drive storage and falls between the featherweight ThinkPad X300 and its T400 predecessor. The ThinkPad T400s sports a super-slim profile, just 0.83-in. thick at its...

Tags: IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., Laptop Computer, ThinkPad T400s, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-22

The Toybox in 2008: A retrospective

It's been an incredible year. This blog was launched, ZDNet Reviews was overhauled, and a whole lot of news 'n' reviews came through The Toybox pipeline. And through it all, you readers were here with us. Here's a recap of the best stories: January:...

Tags: ASUS, Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., T-Mobile, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Blu-ray, ZDNet Reviews, CES 2008, Josh, Andrew, Firefox 3 Beta 5, Flip Mino Camcorder, MSI, BlackBerry Storm, Barack Obama, CES 2009, Handhelds, Hd Dvd, Hardware, Personal Technology, DVD, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Laptop picks by the inch

There has never been more choice in notebooks. The standard 12-inch ultraportables, 14-inch thin-and-lights, 15-inch mainstream laptops and 17-inch desktop replacements are still commonplace. But there are new shapes and sizes filling in the gaps ranging from 11 inches all the way up to 18 inches....

Tags: Sony Corp., Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Hewlett-Packard Co., Gateway Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Battery, Memory, Configuration, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., LED-backlit, IdeaPad, U110, ThinkPad X200, X200s, Dv3510nr, Sony VAIO FW, Gateway P-Series FX Edition, 8930G, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-12-09

Rating Samsung's first notebooks for the U.S.

If your holiday list includes a laptop, there's a new choice from an well-known name: Samsung. In October, Samsung announced that it was entering the U.S. market with six new notebooks, as well as a netbook. The timing wasn't great. After several quarters of double-digit growth, the PC market cooled...

Tags: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Laptop Computer, Laptop Magazine, PC Magazine, Notebooks, Modems, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-11-26

A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release

Is it a major release or just a revamped Windows Vista? That’s the big question surrounding Windows 7, which made its public debut in a keynote address by Steven Sinofsky today at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft executives showed off the new Windows...

Tags: Screen, Microsoft Windows 7, Network, Window, Microsoft Windows Vista, Feature, PowerShell Scripting Language, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-10-28

Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)

Gauging the ThinkPad: Before IBM and after LenovoI'm deeply dissapointedI've bought a business Thinkpad T61 for a premium price one year ago, hoping for the best of their product line. A few weeks ago their update tool pushed a BIOS and graphics card update to fix the famous overheating issue...

Tags: Notebooks, System Spec, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM ThinkPad, laptop computer, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Gauging the ThinkPad: Before (IBM) and after (Lenovo)

Has Lenovo lost whatever mojo the ThinkPad had? That simple question raised a lot of discussion at TechRepublic and it's worth pondering. The problem: Gauging Lenovo's performance depends on a lot of anecdotes with few concrete  answers. As background, John Sheesley asked a simple question: Has Lenovo...

Tags: Consumer Reports, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Lenovo ThinkPad X301

The ThinkPad X301 boasts the same 13.3-inch display, 3.3-pound weight, and 0.7-inch thickness as its predecessor, the ThinkPad X300. In fact, with the exception of a new DisplayPort connector, the X301's case is essentially identical to that of the X300, right down to the built-in DVD burner. The real change...

Tags: Notebooks, Processors, Lenovo ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., ThinkPad X301, IBM ThinkPad

Product reviews 2008-09-19

Lenovo ThinkPad X200

We were a little surprised when Lenovo announced an X series laptop with a 12.1-inch wide-aspect display; after all, the similarly sized ThinkPad X300 had won over many hearts and minds when it was introduced earlier this year. But the new ThinkPad X200 does nicely round out Lenovo's ThinkPad family....

Tags: Notebooks, Engineering, IBM ThinkPad, ThinkPad X200, battery, Lenovo Group Ltd., Lenovo ThinkPad

Product reviews 2008-08-14

News to know: Google; Web Olympics; Patch Tuesday; iPhone

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Will the Olympics melt the Internet? Time Warner's Olympic boost, courtesy NBC More worries for Beijing visitors Phil Wainewright: Hello, Google, is anyone in there? Larry Dignan: Google: Our AOL investment is ‘impaired’ ...

Tags: apple iphone, google inc., web, larry dignan, health care, internet, vertical industries, benefits, e-mail, healthcare, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), enterprise software, software, human resources, online communications, operating systems, microsoft windows

Blog posts 2008-08-08

ThinkPad X200 reviews: Great ultraportable . . . but it's no X300

The X200 is one of eight new ThinkPads--including the SL series for small business--that Lenovo announced as part of Intel's Centrino 2 launch. The 12.1-inch wide-screen ultraportable, which replaces the popular ThinkPad X61, is designed to bring some of the features of the pricey 13.3-inch X300 to a broader audience....

Tags: intel centrino 2, intel centrino, ibm thinkpad, lenovo group ltd., thinkpad x200, x300, reviews, notebooks, hardware, notebooks & tablets, john morris

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker’s Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25